Articles tagged "Liver transplantation"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Pretransplant Serum Hyaluronic Acid Can Be a Prognostic Predictor in Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation.
S. Mizuno,¹ B. Das,² Y. Iizawa,¹ H. Kato,¹ Y. Murata,¹ A. Tanemura,¹ N. Kriyama,¹ Y. Azumi,¹ M. Kishiwada,¹ M. Usui,¹ H. Sakurai,¹ S. Isaji.¹
¹Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic and Transplant Surgery, Mie University, Tsu, Japan; ²Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Objectives:Recently, hyaluronic acid (HA) levels of the solution during graft preservation has been reported to be associated with primary non function in deceased donor liver…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Transplants without Borders – A Project for In Locus Training of New Transplants Centers in Brazil.
M. Perosa,¹ J. Branez,¹ L. Mota,¹ B. Zeballos,¹ H. Noujaim,¹ L. Ianhez,¹ L. Alvim,¹ D. Machado,¹ M. Moreno,¹ T. Genzini,¹ R. Kandaswamy.²
¹Transplant Department, Bandeirantes Hospital, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; ²Transplant, Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
The regional disparity in transplant activity is a huge problem in Brazil and in other countries. Brazilian transplant centers are concentrated in the coastal states,…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Fifty Is the New 40? An Argument to Uncap the MELD Score.
J. DiNorcia,¹ Y. Genyk,¹ K. Andreoni,⁴ W. Kim,³ J. Levitsky,⁵ D. Mulligan,⁶ R. Sung,⁷ M. Nadim.¹
¹Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; ³Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL; ⁴Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL; ⁵Yale Univ, New Haven, CT; ⁶Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Background: The MELD score is used to prioritize patients awaiting liver transplantation (LT) and has been capped at 40 to prevent transplant futility in patients…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Liver Function of Deceased Liver Transplantation Using Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Positive Grafts.
W.-C. Lee,¹ Y.-C. Wang,¹ C.-H. Cheng,¹ T.-H. Wu,¹ C.-F. Lee,¹ R.-S. Soong,¹ T.-J. Wu,¹ H.-S. Chou,¹ K.-M. Chan,¹ C.-S. Lee.²
¹Liver and Transplantation Surgery, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ²Hepatology, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Background: Deceased donors with hepatitis B [HBs Ag(+)] were not recommended to recover the livers for liver transplantation. However, in endemic area of hepatitis B…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Tipping the Scales: Liver Transplant Outcomes of the Super Obese.
R. Gedaly, J. Berger, X. Mei, F. Marti, L. Turcios, M. Shah.
Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Objective: We aim to study outcomes in liver transplant recipients with BMI >50 using the UNOS database.Methods: We reviewed patients undergoing liver transplantation recorded in…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Decellularized Rat Liver Scaffolds Support Multilineage Xenogenic and Heterogenic Cell Growth.
W. Hassanein, U. Dhru, J. Woodall, M. Uluer, A. Cimeno, D. Parsell, C. Rivera, S. Klepfer, C. Drachenberg, R. Barth, J. LaMattina.
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Background:Recent years have seen a proliferation of methods leading to successful organ decellularization. Nonetheless, the ability to reproducibly generate a robust recellularized construct remains challenging.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
When Liver Transplants and Procurement Occur at One Location – A National Study of Graft Survivals.
J. Ortiz,¹ N. Koizumi,² C. Kwon,² Y. Zhang,² C. Ortiz.³
¹University of Toledo, Toledo, OH; ²George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; ³Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
Organ procurement and placement processes entail complex scheduling, logistics and other administrative challenges, especially when organs travel outside the procuring Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) area.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Biopsy-Proven Rejection in Children After Liver Transplantation Is Associated by an IL-12p40-Mediated Innate Immune Response Followed by Th1 T Cell Activation.
C. Falk,¹ I. Goldschmidt,² F. Mutschler,² E. Pfister,² F. Lehner,³ J. Keil,¹ C. Neudörfl,¹ A. Karch,⁴ R. Mikolajczyk,⁴ U. Baumann.²
¹Institute of Transplant Immunology, IFB-Tx, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Bitte Wählen, Germany; ²Department of Pediatric Hepatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Bitte Wählen, Germany; ³Department of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Bitte Wählen, Germany; ⁴Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, HZI, Braunschweig, Germany.
Sustained by adaptive immune cells and their soluble mediators is well established for infection but it has not been demonstrated for solid organ transplantation in…
2016 American Transplant Congress
The Finances of Broader Sharing of Livers Following Share 35.
A. Harper,¹ E. Edwards,¹ R. Gilroy,² W. Chapman,³ D. Mulligan,⁴ G. Klintmalm.⁵
¹Research, UNOS, Richmond, VA; ²Univ.of Kansas Med Ctr, Kansas City, KS; ³Washington Univ, St Louis, MO; ⁴Yale Med Ctr, New Haven, CT; ⁵Baylor Univ, Houston, TX.
Background. After implementation of the “Share 35” policy in 2013, many centers and OPOs reported increased costs associated with broader sharing. The OPTN Liver and…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Pre-Transplant Loco-Regional Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Post-Transplant Outcomes: A National Study.
M. Nazzal,¹ J. Chen,¹ K. Lentine,¹ M. Schnitzler,¹ J. Tuttle-Newhall,² C. Varma,¹ A. Taha,¹ A. Said,¹ H. Xiao,¹ H. Randall.¹
¹Saint Louis Univ, Saint Louis; ²East Carolina Univ, Greenville.
Currently most transplant centers use loco-regional therapy to bridge liver transplant (LT) candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, limited data are available to support the…